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Sustainable farming methods help reduce climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting biodiversity, and creating carbon sinks.»

In a city still reeling from the deadly string of terrorist attacks, participants representing more than 130 countries will gather to formalize their commitments to curbing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The CPP was President Barack Obama's signature policy and aims to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the single largest source in the United States.

The Obama administration proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new US power plants Friday, taking a big step toward fulfilling a long - sought goal of fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Our Portfolio includes projects that benefit the local environments in which they take place and contribute to the global effort against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The participants played the role of negotiators representing countries and six regional blocs (United States, EU, Other Developed Countries, China, India, Other Developing Countries) and three interest groups (the Press / Media / Journalists, Climate Activists, and Fossil Fuel Lobby) to create an agreement that limits climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the model UNFCCC Conference of Parties international climate change negotiations.

At the same time it will help mitigate and solve catastrophic consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Mitigation: An intervention to reduce the causes of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or enhancing sinks for capturing greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

In environmental policy, the Party has introduced Alberta's New Climate Change Pan, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 200 megatons by 2050.

The global energy sector is in the midst of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to cut power plant greenhouse gas emissions across the region by 65 percent by 2030 through the nation's first cap - and - trade program to reduce carbon contributing to global climate change.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For example, some years prior to the election of solitary Green MP Caroline Lucas, Parliament passed the Climate Change Act, which commits the UK to legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an ambitious 80 % by 2050 compared to emissions of 1990.

According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate change.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develoChange], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develochange and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Barnard and his team predicted how SoCal's shores would evolve from 2010 through 2100 by modeling the factors that influence beaches — estimates for sea level rise as well as wave and storm behavior and predicted climate change patterns if the world eventually stabilizes its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, then starts reducing them.

«We did a careful analysis of the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from changes in energy use by households.

Cutting the European Union's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 would reduce economic growth by a fraction of a percent, Britain's minister for energy and climate change said on Thursday.

At the same time, the arrangement is designed to benefit the American companies, which can do their bit to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, as required by the Climate Change Convention, at one - third of the cost of making the same cuts in the US.

There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent of damage by an accumulation of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set of policies, will succeed in reducing emissions.

Professor Sybren said: «It can be excluded, however, that this hiatus period was solely caused by changes in atmospheric forcing, either due to volcanic eruptions, more aerosols emissions in Asia, or reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Results: The least costly way to manage the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to pursue every available option to reduce emissions, according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published in the journal Climatic Change.

Climate change science makes it clear that addressing climate change will require us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050 and a growing number of jurisdictions (e.g., Ontario, Quebec) have now formally adopted this target.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

Hawken's latest project, Drawdown, ranks 100 climate change solutions based on their ability to actually reduce humanity's greenhouse gas emissions year over year by 2050.

I often wake up thinking of a daunting fact: We will have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 % by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

To quote the Department for Energy and Climate Change: «The UK is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050, relative to 1990 levels.

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climaGreenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climagreenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

We recognize that actions to reduce emissions, including from deforestation and forest degradation, and to increase removals by sinks in the land use, land use change, and forestry sector, including cooperation on tackling forest fires, can make a contribution to stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

It is also addressing climate change directly in its operations by reducing its operational impact through aggressive goals for greenhouse gas emissions, water, and paper.

Now it is clear human drive the climate change and human can slow down it by action to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

This means that an already difficult challenge for resident populations and those who care about them (for whatever reason, including moral, humanitarian or national security) will be likely be made more challenging by human climate change if the greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced significantly.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change states that nuclear power reduces UK national carbon emissions by between 7 % and 14 %, so nuclear power is contributing to the UK's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

Accordingly, unless action is taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could cut the projected improvement in food availability by approximately a third by 2050, which in turn would lead to average per - person reductions in food availability of 3.2 %, or 99 kcal, fruit and vegetable intake by 4.0 %, or 14.9 grams per day, and red meat consumption by 0.7 %, or 0.5 grams per day.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genReducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genreducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genReducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

ExxonMobil recognizes the risks posed by climate change, and we believe that everyone should be engaged in meaningful action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

If humans don't act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, Gore contends, the deaths caused by climate change will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year, and more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction in half a century.

Climate change is also taking a toll on our health, but studies show that the worst of future health risks may be avoided in scenarios in which greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced by mid-century.

Huge areas of hardwood forest in the state of Virginia are being chainsawed to create «biomass» energy in Britain as the government attempts to reach targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in efforts to tackle climate change, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches...

Copenhagen — Delegates left the Bali climate change talks in December 2007 with high hopes that a grand bargain on reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be secured by now.

While the Climate Change pundits agree that energy efficiency and renewables are in the long term, «the most sustainable solutions both for security of supply and climate,» they argue that «global greenhouse gas emissions can not be reduced by at least 50 % by 2050, as they need to be, if we do not also use other options such as carbon capture and storage.»

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

«Without explicit efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the fundamental drivers of emissions growth are expected to persist,» according to the study by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

And it suggested that Americans devote «our limited dollars» to adapting to climate change rather than slowing it by reducing greenhouse - gas emissions.

The funds were created as part of the Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, and consequently, the amount of the loan awarded will be determined by how much the project reduces greenhouse gas emissions and how much the project reduces energy consumption.